advowson (advouzn)

[Early mod. E. also advowzen, advouson, a religious house. See advocate of the church, under advocate.-2. In Eng. law, the right of presentation to a vacant benefice. It was origi in legal a istance: see advocate, n. See also nally vested in the bishop of the diocese, but was often trans advowson, which is a doublet of advocation. The first sense of advocation is due to advocate, ferred to the founder or patron of the church. Advowsons are of three kinds, presentative, collative, and donative: presentative when patron presents a clergyman to the v.] 1. The act of advocating; a pleading for; bishop with a petition that he be instituted with the bene plea; apology. My advocation is not now in tune. Shak ., Oth., iii. 4, IMG:content-0318.png:[blocks in formation] fice; collative when the bishop is the patron, and both presents and institutes (or collates ) the incumbent; donative when the sovereign, or any subject by his license, having founded a church, appoints its incumbent without any reference to the bishop. Advowsons are also appendant, that is, annexed to the po e ion of a certain manor; or in gro , that is, separated by legal conveyance from the ownership of the manor.